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Foundation stones for Galway’s first purpose-built mosque have been laid by international and national leaders of the Amhadiyya muslim community.

The Masjid Maryum (Mary Mosque) will be open to “all worshippers of all faiths” when it is built in Ballybrit, the Irish Ahmadiyya muslim chapter said tonight.